An architecture review is one of the most useful things a growing product team can buy — and one of the most misunderstood. Here is what ours includes, and what you get at the end.
Week one: understand
- Interviews with engineers, product owners and whoever is on call
- A walk through the code, the infrastructure and the deployment pipeline
- A look at incidents, performance data and cloud costs
Week two: assess and recommend
- Risks ranked by impact and effort: security, reliability, scalability and maintainability
- Quick wins that can be done in days
- Larger changes, with options and trade-offs rather than one prescribed answer
What you get
A written report in plain language, a prioritised roadmap and a working session with your team to agree the next steps. The goal is a plan your own engineers believe in — not a document that sits in a drawer.
When it makes sense
- Before a major rebuild, migration or fundraising round
- When releases are slowing down or incidents are increasing
- When you inherit a codebase from another team or supplier
If any of that sounds familiar, a review is usually the cheapest way to make the next year of development faster and calmer.
